116 EXCELLENT DUN-FLIES. 



with gold twist, and tied with dun silk thread ; 

 wings, from the palest feather of a young starling; 

 legs, a plain dun hackle. An excellent fly. 



Orange-bodied dun. Body, hare's mixed fur, 

 with a little orange mohair worked with silk of 

 the same colour ; legs, the dubbing picked out 

 with a dubbing-needle at the shoulder ; tail, two 

 strands of the mallard's mottled feather. 



Ashy dun. Water rat's fur mixed with a little 

 orange mohair ; legs picked out of the dubbing ; 

 tail the same as before ; wings, hen black-bird's 

 wing-feather. These dun-flies should be dressed 

 on hooks, No. 8, 9, or 10, according to the state 

 of the water. 



' The grannam, or green-tail. This fly is very 

 well known, but, generally speaking, it is too 

 highly spoken off. It lasts only for about ten days 

 in April, and its chief value is that it is a morning 

 fly, and will kill from sunrise to eleven o'clock, 

 when the mornings and forenoons are fine, and 

 the water moderately clear and low. Sometimes 

 it will kill late in the afternoon. Bowlker gives 

 the best account of this fly, the first appearance of 

 which, he says, " is about the beginning of April, 

 if the weather is warm, it being a very tender 

 fly, and unable to endure the cold. When they 

 first appear on the water, they are seen in great 

 quantities. On bright mornings you may begin 

 to fish with them from six o'clock till eleven ; 



